Das Konzept des sogenannten "liberalen" oder "libertären" Paternalismus wird in der akademischen Debatte zunehmend kontrovers diskutiert und findet gleichzeitig immer mehr das Interesse politischer Praktiker. Dieser Beitrag argumentiert, dass es sich beim neuen Paternalismus nicht um ein...

Democracy, Freedom and Coercion comprehensively covers both private and public law, both applied and theoretical issues, and will therefore be of great interest to students studying law and economics.

The peer review system in academic publishing performs two important functions by screening a manuscript for its quality, and by helping to further improve an author's work. However, it often fails to perform these functions in a satisfactory manner. We argue that property rights theory can be...

We argue that perceived fairness of the income generation process affects the association between income inequality and subjective well-being, and that there are systematic differences in this regard between countries that are characterized by a high or, respectively, low level of actual...

We argue that perceived fairness of the income generation process affects the association between income inequality and subjective well-being, and that there are systematic differences in this regard between countries that are characterized by a high or, respectively, low level of actual...

The sociologist R. Dahrendorf has recently suggested that there is no and there ought to be no convergence of economic policies towards some common ideal model. On the contrary, he states that 'diversity is […] at the very heart of a world that has abandoned the need for closed, encompassing...

<Para ID="Par1">This paper argues that an evolutionary approach to policy-making, which emphasizes openness to change and political variety, is particularly compatible with the central tenets of classical liberalism. The chief reasons are that classical liberalism acknowledges the ubiquity of uncertainty, as...</para>

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility maximization, we predict that persons with higher perceived...

[Schlussfolgerungen] Das Gesamtbild der Umsetzung des Fiskalpaktes in nationales Recht ist zu diesem Zeitpunkt durchwachsen. Einerseits ist es erfreulich, dass gerade von der Krise stark betroffene Länder wie Spanien und Portugal sehr ernsthafte und vielversprechende Regelungen verabschiedet...

[Schlussfolgerungen] Das Gesamtbild der Umsetzung des Fiskalpaktes in nationales Recht ist zu diesem Zeitpunkt durchwachsen. Einerseits ist es erfreulich, dass gerade von der Krise stark betroffene Länder wie Spanien und Portugal sehr ernsthafte und vielversprechende Regelungen verabschiedet...